Your favorite way to eat couscous? (Read 593 times)

I'm just getting into eating it--I have been buying the whole wheat kind. I really like to cook it, then saute it in a little olive oil with red beans. Then I add chopped tomatoes, green onions, and cilantro. I definitely need more ideas.

Couscous goose! (I've never actually had this. But it was once one of the sight gags on the little menu chalkboard behind the cafeteria line in south park) For real: I've never really tried to make couscous the main attraction. It generally sits under or next to other stuff.

My first husband was Algerian (I guess he still is, t hough a US citizen now) and I lived there for a while, so anything other than couscous steamed three times served with a brothy stew of chicken and/or lamb with specific vegetables and chickpeas seems just plain strange to me, though when other people make non 'official' couscous based dishes, they always taste good. In the useless skills category, I can roll couscous by hand from a 50 kilo sack of semolina. MTA: http://www.couscouscatering.com/aboutcouscous.html a link to a photo of 'real' couscous and its description - after I hit send I remembered my ex owns (with his second wife) a restaurant in DC called Couscous Cafe and that said restaurant has the above information on its website.

I usually use whole wheat couscous as a side dish...for me its the "oh crap dinner is ready and I forgot to make a starch" I usually just cook it in chicken broth and then put a little butter on it, but sometimes I'll stir in cheese or onions&shrooms or whatever. Anything that you would add to rice or potatoes works.

Sort of spicy ( garlic & cumin ) and with plain with yogurt on top. Actually, any whole grain, rice too tastes so much better with a little yogurt on top. Yes, I'm a quarter Lebanese. And, by the way, my trip to Detroit last week really hit the spot! Lots of Kibbeh (baked and raw) grape leave, real hummus, syrian bread ( not that thick nasty "pita" bread out here ) God I miss good food!

We like do add chopped up dried fruit to regular Near East couscous. Yum. i've also done dried cranberries and sliced almonds. Double yum.